A university professor has vowed to continue teaching after pro-Palestinian students disrupted his lecture, made a threat to behead him and called for him to be sacked.

Michael Ben-Gad, professor of economics at City St George's, University of London, told Sky News he was also branded a terrorist because of links to Israel's military, after he was conscripted to serve in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) in the 1980s.

"It started, apparently on the same day as the start of the ceasefire [between Israel and Hamas] ... which I don't think is necessarily coincidental.

"There's a whole industry that has developed about vilifying Israel, by extension, Jews. And they're now looking for new targets."

Mr Ben-Gad said it was not just his military service that protesters were complaining a

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